> Also, the *bsd lines you might be referring to
>
> $(LD) -x -Bshareable -Bforcearchive
>
> the -Bshareable is the flag to make a shared library, -Bforcearchive is
> completely unnecessary, and -x says "Discard all local symbols in the
> input files.", whatever that may mean. (In fact, I'm fairly convinced
> that this is not the recommended way to link shared libraries on these
> systems, but I don't have enough enthusiasm to amend this.)
I seem to remember someone saying it was needed to like later stuff,
like ODBC? I am not sure myself. Some OS's had it, other's didn't.
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